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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Watch The Main Event At Santa Pod LIVE HERE! Top Fuel, FIA Championship Drags, And More!

One of the biggest drag racing events in Europe is on this weekend and you can watch it right here, live! The event is the kickoff for the 2026 FIA Championship drag racing season and it is also...

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FREE LIVESTREAM: 2026 Indy 500 Driver’s Meeting! With All This Qualifying And Practice Done It’s Almost Time To Race! Watch It All Live Here! INDYCAR SERIES

We’ve got a few days until the start of the Indy 500, but there is plenty of practice and qualifying action to watch until then! We’ve got live streaming video from the Indianapolis Motor...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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Saturday $20,000 Race AND Wheelie Contest! Wasting Fuel Productions Coal Rush $20ks Big Money Bracket Racing Weekend LIVE!

It’s time for more LIVE big money bracket racing. This weekend’s Coal Rush 20s start now and promise tight racing and big payouts. With other races being cancelled this weekend due to...

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Building The Rearend and Custom Race Steering Wheel For The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project!

Project 508 is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple videos to share below and will be bringing you more in the coming weeks as...

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FREE Drag Racing Livestream: 9th Annual Strange Engineering Ronnie Buff Memorial Friday

There is soooo much going on at the 9th Annual Ronnie Buff Memorial race at Shadyside this weekend! No matter what kind of racing you are into, there is going to be something here for you to enjoy....

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Celebrity Car Death Match: The 1982 Jeep J10 From Twister VS The 1963 Jeep Gladiator From Tremors!

(Editor’s note: Obviously the events surrounding the Oklahoma tornado are horrible and we’re sending our best to everyone effected by the disaster. We certainly didn’t plan on...

COMP Performance Group Maintains Huge Presence On Power Tour In 2013 – You Could Win Big!

In 2013 the COMP Performance group will maintain a big presence on the Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour and that’s great news for anyone planning on making the trip in their hot rod. Why? Because...

Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!

(Words and photos by Steve Magnante) – It has been over a decade since the April 2000 issue of Hot Rod magazine appeared on newsstands across the nation. The main image depicted an austere...

Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois

(Photos by Sean Smyth) – While Chad was up on the scaffolding in Cordova, Illinois during the ADRL Spring Drags last weekend, BangShift contributing photographer Sean Smyth was at ground level...

Video: Watch Chris Evans’ Massive X275 Wheelstand From MIR Last Weekend!

It has been a while since we’ve shown you a good old fashioned, all four wheels off the ground wheelstand video. This is racer Chris Evans competing in his great looking X275 Mustang at the...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Would You Do With This Racing Junk Find J-79 Jet Engine?

Calling on a jet engine must be super cool. I mean just saying “Yeah, I’m calling about the jet engine you have for sale?” LOL That would rule all! I totally want this. I...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Racing In The Street” Bruce Springsteen (1978)

The description of the car, the strip, the girl, the dream…all of it romanticizes street racing just like all our own old stories. It’s not that the details are more or less real from one...

Video: Watch The Mammoth Air Mundy Mega Truck Take Flight And Then Slog Though A Deep Muck Hole

We’ve showed you video of Dan Mundy’s insane Chevy truck before but here’s some new footage of “Air Mundy” getting it done and in fine fashion. The truck was out tearing...

Big Weekend For RideTech In Nashville – The Big Sweep!

Have been in the catbird seat announcing the action at the 8th Goodguys Nashville Nationals I was there to see the guys and girls at RideTech have a banner weekend in competition. Lots of their...

Screaming Video: Watch A 2008 Mustang With A 358CI NASCAR Engine Make A Dyno Pull – Bad Ass Road Racer!

The Mustang Shop in Washington state is in the final stages of completing a 2008 Mustang the likes of which we have never seen for the NASA American Iron Extreme class. What was their build plan?...

Gallery: The Earlville Cruise 2013 – Hot Rods, Muscle, Classics, Trucks, Patina, And Main St USA!

(Words by Greg Rourke — Photos by Rouke/Chiluk) – The Earlville cruise night only happens once a year in Earlville, Il., and that might be just enough. They shut down most of the town to...

Road Trip Diary: Taking The Long Road Home In A Hemi 300C Finding Killer Cars Along The Way!

(Words and Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Editor’s Note: Bryan McTaggart is an OG BangShifter and he filed this report of cruising his hemi powered 300C from Arizona to his wife’s...

Celebrity Car Death Match: The 1973 Ventura Sprint From Seven Ups VS The 1984 Diplomat From Short Time (W/Video)

Today it is two police mo-chines getting after it which is a far happier situation than Friday’s battle which was set in a world that had been completely decimated by nuclear weapons, wars over...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Been Your Best Automotive Surprise?

Not the let the cat out of the bag early on something, but later today GM is dropping off a 2013 Camaro SS Hot Wheels edition for an upcoming road test story. Normally when I have a car coming, I...